The courts must decide whether the two-week-old infant can keep his birth name Mohamed Nizar Merah, the namesake of Mohamed Merah, an al Qaeda behind a nine-day attack in Toulouse in March 2012.
Merah gunned down three soldiers, a rabbi, and three Jewish children in the attack before he was shot dead following a 32-hour standoff with police.
Authorities in Nice, the southern French town where 85 people were crushed to death by a radical Islamist less than six months ago, are trying to change the newborn’s civil register, claiming naming the child after the notorious jihadist amounts to... read more

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